My Love, God Is Everywhere

As a child, I had a fear of a tree in our backyard. It was gnarled and had a hollow in it that looked like gremlins would pour out of in the dark. The fear of this tree was at its height around the time I heard about God being everywhere. I had attended my first VBS...

Three Wise Women

I am a bit of an Advent snob. If something purports to be an Advent resource, it has to have the flexibility to stretch through the entirety of Advent. If it always starts on December 1 and ends on December 24, it’s a Christmas countdown, not Advent, thank you very...

Read And Rhyme: The First Christmas

Around our home, the way to solving any problem is usually through some combination of hugs, books, and food. Is someone sad? Let’s have some hot cocoa and chat. Are people bickering? Let’s pop popcorn, listen to an audiobook, and hang out. Is someone out of sorts or...

The Gospel of Loneliness

One of the best pieces of parenting advice I ever received was to ‘fill the kid’s well’. It was shorthand for paying attention, interacting with, and spending time with children so they did not feel that they needed to fill their emptiness with things that are...